Now that I've read the issue in question (and, honestly, this is the one countdown cliffhanger that's actually got me edge-of-the-seat, and of course I won't see the next one for a month!) I can have an opinion on the "Why did Jason Todd shoot Donna Troy?" issue.
I'll be very surprised if Jason is in fact turning to the (extra) dark side. I don't know about the knifing thing--whether he was going for the kill or just the maim (I'm hoping for the latter, mainly because I think he and Donna make a cute couple in a mirroring-Bruce-and-Diana sort of way)--but shooting Donna? Has to be part of some plan. (He did say he was trained by Batman, remember?) And while I'll freely admit to being no Jason Todd expert, from what I've managed to pick up, he may have been a bad guy, but he was an ethical bad guy. Kind of. You know. I mean he has some principles, regardless of what his methods may be--he's not going to switch sides just because the other side seems to be winning.
Now, I don't know if this (whatever it is) is something he told Donna about ahead of time, or if he expected her to pick up on what he had in mind and play along, or if he's totally on his own with this.
But. Why did Jason Todd shoot Donna Troy?
Because he knew she could take it.
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